“I cannot destroy my current self so that my future self can survive.”

— Kaneko Fumiko, Because I Wanted To (1923-5)

About Kaneko Fumiko

1903 – 1926

Japanese anarchist and writer whose prison memoirs were published after her death.

“Let your children play as they please! To play freely on this earth is the one privilege nature has given to children.”

“By nature human beings should be equal.”

“The virtue and beauty of human beings is to live naturally, ungoverned by external forces.”

“Ask yourself at every moment, "Is this necessary?"”

“Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!”

“It may be called the Master Passion—the hunger for Self-Approval.”

“The only possible society is oneself.”

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”